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The federal Environmental Protection Agency must do a better job ensuring that oil refineries that exceed emissions limits for benzene, a toxic, carcinogenic pollutant, cut those concentrations, the agency’s inspector general found.
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The EPA must ensure that oil refineries that exceed benzene emissions limits cut those concentrations, the agency’s inspector general found.
Oil refineries emit benzene a chemical that can cause cancer and other health problems. From 2018 to 2021, 25 oil refineries in the U.S. had high levels of benzene at their fence lines for more than two weeks after the plants should have taken action to lower them.
The Environmental Protection Agency is allowing oil refineries to emit excessive benzene, a carcinogenic toxin, the agency’s inspector general found.